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Well, I remember when I first started out... I had faith in everyone.  Maybe I am just gullible that way but I thought to share a bit of my startup experience with some of the newbies here.  You may be less naive then I was starting out, but your comment is just rude.

You`re right, startup. 

Anyone who has ever put their faith in someone professionally only to be taken advantage of as a result probably wishes that someone would have forewarned them to be a little more careful. 

I wouldn`t call you gullible. People really should be able to trust one another. I have had it happen to me, too, and it is no picnic.

We all have the tendency to expect others to behave as honorably as we try to, and it is that assumption (albeit made in good faith) that can lead to all sorts of grief if we don`t protect ourselves, which was the message that you conveyed when you started the thread.

Not everyone acts with integrity- and maybe this conversation that you started will remind those other honest, good-hearted souls who work so hard not to just take someone else`s word when it comes to a business transaction, but to get it in writing, too.

An ounce of prevention, right? 

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Rosanna Tussey
Owner
New Mexico Candle Co.
http://www.nmcandleco.com

I think what`s also interesting about this thread is that there seems to be an increase in the number of people who have an epiphany about what ought to be common knowledge. I`m not sure why this is, but I`ve noticed it more often lately.

A good example is a 55 yearold woman on a different forum who posted the astonishing insight that human age divisions were a lot like seasons. She`d just had this sudden awareness that being young was like the spring, old age like winter, and so forth.

Maybe it`s our more insular lives these days, with so much technology? Or perhaps that we don`t get out and interact in large social groups as much? I dunno....I don`t see as many people having parties either.

Rosanna`s right, that it does do the spirit good to look at life optimistically. It`s not a bad thing to trust people, and I don`t much care for the old saw of "looking for the best but expecting the worst." However, there`s nothing wrong with being "skeptical."

Sorry my comment was percieved as rude, not intended to be rude but tongue in cheek. 

Sorry, it is a result of doing business for over 20 years in FL.  Watching good people get worked over in a business deal because they did not check out facts or think through something they had been told actually led me to doing business consulting, and helping people look beyond what they are told.  I would still like to believe that some of the things I have seen were not done deliberately but it has happened too often to be a coincidence. 

The advice remains the same.  DO YOUR HOMEWORK.  Means check banking references for new clients, drive out to a warehouse, check better business bureau, verify addresses before shipping, etc. 

 

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Dale
www.ourbestidea.com
www.maskerinsurance.com
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